Most popular articles
These naturally change over time, but here are our 10 most popular articles over the last month (not in order):
“All life is here”: Bruegel’s Way to Calvary
A detailed exploration of Pieter Bruegel's famously complex and intriguing Way to Calvary
Dr Jekyll, Frankenstein and Shelley's Heart
The curiously-intertwined lives and creations of the Shelleys and Robert Louis Stevenson
The truly extraordinary life of the multi-talented nineteenth century Frenchman Felix Tournachon
Watchmen, goldfinders and the plague bearers of the night
How three traditional occupations of the night were perceived -- from the uncomfortable, to the distasteful to the horrific.
How Joseph Wright's paintings of scientific experiments exploited brilliant light to depict a new type of knowledge (and what a "freeborn mouse" though about it all)
Lost masterpieces of ancient Egyptian art from the Nebamun tomb chapel
A story of survival, censorship and adaptation
From the Rokeby Venus to Fascism
In Part 1 we examine the art slashers of the suffragette movement in Britain, and in Part 2 we analyse why some militant suffragettes made the unlikely graduation to Fascism.
Toulouse-Lautrec, the bicycle and the women's movement
How the 1890s cycling boom inspired a classic Toulouse-Lautrec poster and stimulated the growing movement for women’s rights.
The Life and Death of Mummy Brown
The extraordinary story of how the crumbled remains of mummies came to be used by European artists right up to the twentieth century
Egyptian blue: the colour of technology
The unexpected discovery of some remarkable properties of a 4,500 year old pigment may have significant implications for our technological future.